Andy Warhol (1928-1987)

Andy Warhol was an American artist, avant-garde filmmaker, writer and social figure. Warhol also worked as a publisher, music producer and actor. With his background and experience in commercial art, Warhol was one of the founders of the Pop Art movement in the United States in the 1950s. Warhol is best known for his extremely simple, larger-than-life, high-contrast color paintings (silk-screen prints) of packaged consumer products, everyday objects – such as Campbell’s Soup, poppy flowers and the banana appearing on the cover of the rock music album The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967) – and for his stylized portraits of twentieth century celebrity icons – such as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Judy Garland, and Elizabeth Taylor. Outside the art world, Warhol is best known for the quotation “In the future everybody will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” He later told reporters, “My new line is, ‘In fifteen minutes, everybody will be famous.'”

Andy Warhol was an American artist, avant-garde filmmaker, writer and social figure. Warhol also worked as a publisher, music producer and actor. With his background and experience in commercial art, Warhol was one of the founders of the Pop Art movement in the United States in the 1950s. Warhol is best known for his extremely simple, larger-than-life, high-contrast color paintings (silk-screen prints) of packaged consumer products, everyday objects – such as Campbell’s Soup, poppy flowers and the banana appearing on the cover of the rock music album The Velvet Underground and Nico (1967) – and for his stylized portraits of twentieth century celebrity icons – such as Marilyn Monroe, Elvis Presley, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Judy Garland, and Elizabeth Taylor. Outside the art world, Warhol is best known for the quotation “In the future everybody will be world-famous for 15 minutes.” He later told reporters, “My new line is, ‘In fifteen minutes, everybody will be famous.'”